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• Can the Tea Party govern? (Y! News Special Report)
• Meet Pete Rouse, possibly Obama’s next chief of staff (The Upshot)
• Fast Fix: How to Campaign as the anti-Politician (The Newsroom)
• AP sources: Emanuel leaving White House on Friday (AP)
• Attacked on both sides, Whitman offers to take polygraph (The Upshot)
• Poll: Murkowski and Miller are dead even in Alaska (The Upshot)
• Emotional free-speech case to mark Supreme Court opening week (The Newsroom)
• Women a key on Nov. 2; Dems' gender edge closing? (AP)
• Capitol architect under fire (Politico)
• Shelby foresees FinReg changes (Politico)
• Medicaid enrollment spikes to 48M in weak economy (AP)
• Clinton to visit Balkans, press reconciliation (AP)
• Report slams UK cameras used to snoop on Muslims (AP)
• White House slashes bailout cost estimate (Reuters)
• Some congressional staffs avoid Colbert’s show (The Upshot)
• Bloomberg: Obama ‘not particularly interested in business’ (Daily Caller)
• Democratic Leaders Huddle With Obama on Campaign, November Agenda (CQPolitics.com)
• APNewsBreak: O'Donnell nonprofit failed to file (AP)
• Harry Reid vs. Sharron Angle Senate bout gets tighter - and nastier (The Christian Science Monitor)

Can the Tea Party govern? (Y! News Special Report) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:32 AM PDT Y! News Special Report - By Josh Kraushaar National Journal The lion's share of attention paid to the Tea Party movement has gone to its Senate candidates, a slew of outsiders who have touted their opposition to excessive government, shaking up the Republican Party and …

Meet Pete Rouse, possibly Obama’s next chief of staff (The Upshot) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:37 PM PDT The Upshot - With Rahm Emanuel reportedly announcing Friday that he's leaving the White House to run for mayor of Chicago, President Obama is expected to name his senior adviser, Pete Rouse, to serve as acting (and perhaps permanent) White House chief of staff. In choosing Rouse, Obama would be tapping a near-opposite of his outgoing chief of [...]

Fast Fix: How to Campaign as the anti-Politician (The Newsroom) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:05 AM PDT The Newsroom - With voters in a sour mood about politics, candidates across the country are trying to figure out how to convince their constituents that they aren't like most politicians. Ron Johnson, a Republican running for Senate in Wisconsin, seems to have …

AP sources: Emanuel leaving White House on Friday (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is set to give up his influential national post Friday to begin a run for Chicago mayor, a job he has long coveted but won't win unless he persuades voters he's still one of them.

Attacked on both sides, Whitman offers to take polygraph (The Upshot) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:02 PM PDT The Upshot - California GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman told reporters at a news conference Thursday that she would take a lie detector test to prove she was "stunned" when she found out that her housekeeper was an illegal immigrant in 2009, CNN reports. The former housekeeper's lawyer, celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, produced a copy of a letter [...]

Poll: Murkowski and Miller are dead even in Alaska (The Upshot) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 02:57 PM PDT The Upshot - A new poll finds Joe Miller and Lisa Murkoswki virtually tied in Alaska's Senate race. According to a new CNN/Time survey, Miller narrowly leads the incumbent senator by just two points, 38 percent to 36 percent, among likely Alaska voters. Democrat Scott McAdams, the mayor of Sitka, runs a distant third, garnering just 22 percent. [...]

Emotional free-speech case to mark Supreme Court opening week (The Newsroom) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:41 AM PDT The Newsroom - The Supreme Court's 2010-2011 term gets under way next week, and the justices are wasting no time in tackling a case that has the potential to redraw the boundaries of free speech under the First Amendment.

Women a key on Nov. 2; Dems' gender edge closing? (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:54 PM PDT AP - They're worried about putting food on the table and paying the bills. They're frustrated that more hasn't changed since President Barack Obama was elected. And they feel like nobody in Washington — Republican or Democrat — has a clue what they're up against.

Capitol architect under fire (Politico) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:31 PM PDT Politico - Ayers defends office months after safety report shows violations throughout Capitol complex.

Shelby foresees FinReg changes (Politico) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:29 PM PDT Politico - He tells top financial officials that changes in the new financial regulation law are “inevitable.”

Medicaid enrollment spikes to 48M in weak economy (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:47 PM PDT AP - A record number of Americans signed up for Medicaid last year, as the recession wiped out jobs and workplace health coverage.

Clinton to visit Balkans, press reconciliation (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 10:54 AM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she will push for reconciliation between Serbia and Kosovo during a coming trip to the Balkans.

Report slams UK cameras used to snoop on Muslims (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:59 AM PDT AP - British police apologized Thursday for a counterterrorism project that installed surveillance cameras in predominantly Muslim neighborhoods, saying that although the cameras had never been switched on, the program had damaged trust and caused anger in the community.

White House slashes bailout cost estimate (Reuters) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:01 PM PDT Reuters - The U.S. financial bailout would cost less than $50 billion, slashing a prior estimate by more than half on the back of a new plan to sell the government's stake in insurer American International Group, the Obama administration said on Thursday.

Some congressional staffs avoid Colbert’s show (The Upshot) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:53 AM PDT The Upshot - Congressional aides and lawmakers still smarting from comedian Stephen Colbert's testimony last Friday on immigration and the conditions that farmworkers endure say that the satirical performance is just another example of why they're steering clear of his Comedy Central show. Politico reports that several congressional staffs are turning down requests for Colbert's "Better Know a [...]

Bloomberg: Obama ‘not particularly interested in business’ (Daily Caller) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:36 PM PDT Daily Caller - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday gave a mixed but decidedly negative review of President Obama's economic policies, saying that the reason for joblessness is uncertainty in the private sector caused by government and that the president is uninterested in business.

Democratic Leaders Huddle With Obama on Campaign, November Agenda (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:56 AM PDT CQPolitics.com - Congressional Democratic leaders headed Thursday to the White House to discuss campaign strategy with President Obama and the agenda for the lame-duck session that begins Nov. 15.

APNewsBreak: O'Donnell nonprofit failed to file (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - A nonprofit evangelical group founded and run by Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware is at risk of losing its tax-exempt status for failing to file required federal tax forms.

Harry Reid vs. Sharron Angle Senate bout gets tighter - and nastier (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:35 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The closer Nevada’s US Senate race has gotten â€" and it couldn’t possibly be any closer now, according to new polling â€" the nastier it has become.

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